This is one of the strangest yet most compelling books I’ve ever read. It’s the story of Simon Buxton’s initiation into the Path of Pollen, a Keltic (his term)Shamanic tradition based around the honeybee. And what a story it is! Without giving it away, all I will say is that Simon Buxton has to go through a number of initiatory tests in order to receive the wisdom of his Bee Master and these tests also include becoming part of the swarms hive-mind, shapeshifting to another species, trips into the forest and to spooky island caves and encounters with the enigmatic and powerful female lineage known as the Melissae. It’s an hallucinatory, bonkers read which plunges you into someone elses dreamscape but it’s so well written and tantalising that you just keep reading on….well worth your time if you can handle shamanic strangeness and someone messing with time, space and your head!